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CW: Bird site owner calls to prosecute Fauci #USpol
@JenniferMorency It’s #StochasticTerrorism to use a bully pulpit that big to paint a bullseye on #DrFauci. It’s beyond sick & evil as is so much of what #elonmusk does.
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CW: Bird site owner calls to prosecute Fauci #USpol
@JenniferMorency It’s #StochasticTerrorism to use a bully pulpit that big to paint a bullseye on #DrFauci. It’s beyond sick & evil as is so much of what #elonmusk does.
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CW: FSC sues to overturn Cox's block of adult websites #uspol #NSFW
#FSC Files Legal Challenge to Utah's Anti-Porn Law
https://www.xbiz.com/news/273472/fsc-files-legal-challenge-to-utahs-anti-porn-law "Utah's SB 287 requires that visitors to adult sites prove that they are over 18 years of age, such as by providing digitized government identification to a service that interacts with a state database. However, the state of #Utah does not currently have the capability to verify digital IDs online." #SpencerCox #privacy #1A -
@cathyginter They want every broadly defined "able" bodied but unemployed #Medicaid recipient between 19-56 in #Workfare, which would cause coverage losses of ~10 million per Vox. Here's what workfare is like: https://web.archive.org/web/20230208181401/http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/workfare.html
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CW: GOP plan would cause millions to lose health coverage #uspol
Analysis: #McCarthy #Medicaid Proposal Puts Millions of People in Expansion States at Risk of Losing Health Coverage https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/mccarthy-medicaid-proposal-puts-millions-of-people-in-expansion-states-at-risk-of "The McCarthy proposal could [also] jeopardize coverage for millions more, by prompting some states to drop the #ACA Medicaid expansion or dissuading states that have not yet taken the expansion from adopting it." #Healthcare #poverty #workfare
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CW: Ro Khanna, Silicon Valley Democrat with mainstream appeal #USpol
Analysis: #Progressive #Democrat brings pitch to rural America https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3963448-progressive-ro-khanna-brings-pitch-to-rural-america/
"Khanna’s alignment with the tech sector distinguishes him from progressives like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who has been critical of the industry’s influence. While #Khanna is clear-eyed about areas for improvement, such as #privacy and #dataprotection, he believes it offers the party opportunities as well." -
How to see peak of the #Lyrid #meteor shower this weekend https://www.axios.com/2023/04/21/meteor-shower-2023-april-lyrid "Why it matters: It's one of the oldest known meteor showers, with the first recorded sighting going back to 687 B.C. in China, according to NASA."
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CW: Trump worries about legal cases #USPol
Column: The law is on Trump’s tail, and he sounds pretty worried https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-03-26/the-law-is-finally-on-trump-trail-and-he-sounds-pretty-worried "There’s a baroque theory that #Trump welcomes criminal #prosecutions because every battle makes him a hero in the eyes of his followers. But he didn’t sound heroic last week. He sounded frightened and whiny." #martyr
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CW: Welfare, workfare, forced labor #USPol
Expanding Work Requirements Would Make It Harder for People to Meet Basic Needs https://www.cbpp.org/research/poverty-and-inequality/expanding-work-requirements-would-make-it-harder-for-people-to-meet Arguments for work requirements "ignore the realities of the low-paid labor market, the lack of child care and paid sick and family leave, how health and disability issues and the need to care for family members affect people’s lives, and ongoing labor market discrimination." #welfare #workfare #poverty #ForcedLabor
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CW: Permalinks: US poverty and class warfare
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#Medicaid and #Workfare
https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/an-overview-of-medicaid-work-requirements-what-happened-under-the-trump-and-biden-administrations/Workfare in New York
https://web.archive.org/web/20230208181401/http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/workfare.htmlThe Suburban Century Begins (July 1992)
https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/politics/ecbig/schnsub.htm How neoliberalism pits the working poor against the welfare poor. Three decades later and nothing has changed. -
CW: Defense Dept. still examining "Havana Syndrome" #USPol
Pentagon still studying if a weapon caused ‘Havana Syndrome,’ even after spy agencies found no smoking gun https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/06/havana-syndrome-pentagon-research-00085686 "The Pentagon has long studied the possible military applications of directed energy, including lasers and high-power microwaves, and today spends roughly $1.5 billion a year looking into this technology." #HavanaSyndrome #DirectedEnergy #medical #mystery
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CW: GOP aims to cut health coverage #uspol
Analysis: Congressional Republicans’ Budget Plans Are Likely to Cut Health Coverage
https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/congressional-republicans-budget-plans-are-likely-to-cut-health-coverage "Justifications for work requirements rest on false assumptions about people who participate in #Medicaid and about why people are out of work or are paid low wages. They ignore the realities for people in the low-paid labor market ..." #healthcare #GOP #workfare #pandemic #disabled -
@protecttruth In the abstract I agree, and I support some kind of #CommonCarrier status for pervasive #SocialMedia . Some things to think about: #FCC Title II regulation; #Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins; #Section230 ; #NetNeutrality ; and the former #FairnessDoctrine
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CW: Americans don't understand prohibition #uspol
Most Americans don't understand how #prohibition works https://www.axios.com/2023/02/03/most-americans-tobacco-ban "The majority of Americans (57%) support a ban on the sale of all #tobacco products and even more support blocking sales of #menthol #cigarettes [favored by Black people] (62%), a CDC study ... found." Not mentioned: how much more policing and jail capacity would be needed to enforce it. Americans have forgotten how cops killed #EricGarner for selling loose cigarettes.
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Weird product demos at 2023 #CES https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/05/ces_2023/ 'Remember Smellovision? The original system was supposed to release odors so filmgoers could "smell" what they see on the screen. It was only ever used for one film, Scent of Mystery, in 1960. ... OVR Technology is trying to do #Smellovision for the #metaverse ... through an add-on device for VR headsets - so another bulky thing swinging from our faces as we galavant through the still non-existent metaverse.'
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CW: Humor: My Landlord Drinks Starbucks (may be offensive to non-poor people)
My Landlord Drinks Starbucks https://paper.wf/jennifer/my-landlord-drinks-starbucks #humor #comedy #coffee #TeddyBear #InsideJoke #offensive #Starbucks #ClassWar
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CW: #PoliticalHumor #polyamory
This is a rather inside joke, but shouldn't the recurring #Polyamory symbol in this video be in the lower LEFT corner instead of the lower right? 😉 #NolanChart #PoliticalHumor
"LOVE UNLIMITED love's theme (VOCAL VERSION!)"
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#Malware infiltrates #Pidgin messenger’s official plugin repository https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-infiltrates-pidgin-messengers-official-plugin-repository/ I used to use Pidgin to communicate with friends on AIM and similar messenger apps. The malicious plugin was offered only as a binary, not open source code. Worryingly, it had valid signatures, and so did the malware it downloaded. #DarkGate #Jabber #messenger
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#Malware infiltrates #Pidgin messenger’s official plugin repository https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-infiltrates-pidgin-messengers-official-plugin-repository/ I used to use Pidgin to communicate with friends on AIM and similar messenger apps. The malicious plugin was offered only as a binary, not open source code. Worryingly, it had valid signatures, and so did the malware it downloaded. #DarkGate #Jabber #messenger
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Bloomberg: #OpenAI interim CEO plans to rehire #Altman, #Brockman https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/openai-interim-ceo-plans-to-rehire-altman-brockman-bloomberg-3238509 'OpenAI’s board [previously] said that Altman had not been “candid” in his communication with the board, which was one of the reasons behind his ouster.' My guess from the beginning: a personal scandal was about to become public.
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Bloomberg: #OpenAI interim CEO plans to rehire #Altman, #Brockman https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/openai-interim-ceo-plans-to-rehire-altman-brockman-bloomberg-3238509 'OpenAI’s board [previously] said that Altman had not been “candid” in his communication with the board, which was one of the reasons behind his ouster.' My guess from the beginning: a personal scandal was about to become public.
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#Reddit is blocking logins on mobile for some users, asking them to use the official Reddit #app https://www.ghacks.net/2023/06/12/reddit-is-blocking-logins-on-mobile-for-some-users-asking-them-to-use-the-official-reddit-app/ I hope this doesn't become a trend. I use a mobile browser for everything because I don't want the #ads and #tracking from the "app." #SurveillanceCapitalism #Teddit #Libreddit
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#Reddit is blocking logins on mobile for some users, asking them to use the official Reddit #app https://www.ghacks.net/2023/06/12/reddit-is-blocking-logins-on-mobile-for-some-users-asking-them-to-use-the-official-reddit-app/ I hope this doesn't become a trend. I use a mobile browser for everything because I don't want the #ads and #tracking from the "app." #SurveillanceCapitalism #Teddit #Libreddit
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CW: US poverty and class warfare (permalinks)
Permalinks: US poverty and class warfare
#Medicaid and #Workfare
https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/an-overview-of-medicaid-work-requirements-what-happened-under-the-trump-and-biden-administrations/Workfare in New York
https://web.archive.org/web/20230208181401/http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/workfare.htmlThe Suburban Century Begins (July 1992)
https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/politics/ecbig/schnsub.htm How neoliberalism pits the working poor against the welfare poor. Three decades later and nothing has changed. -
CW: US poverty and class warfare (permalinks)
Permalinks: US poverty and class warfare
#Medicaid and #Workfare
https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/an-overview-of-medicaid-work-requirements-what-happened-under-the-trump-and-biden-administrations/Workfare in New York
https://web.archive.org/web/20230208181401/http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/workfare.htmlThe Suburban Century Begins (July 1992)
https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/politics/ecbig/schnsub.htm How neoliberalism pits the working poor against the welfare poor. Three decades later and nothing has changed.